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{{Infobox Software
| name = Becky!
| logo = Becky! Internet Mail.png
| screenshot =
| caption =
| developer = RimArts
| released = 1996
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q837949|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q837949|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q837949|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q837949|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = [[C++]]
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| language = English, Japanese, French, German
| genre = [[e-mail client]]
| license = [[Shareware]]
| website = [http://www.rimarts.co.jp/ RimArts]
}}
'''Becky! Internet Mail''' is an [[e-mail client]] software for [[Microsoft Windows]] developed by the Japanese company RimArts from [[Matsudo]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]]. Becky! was originally released in 1996 as Becky! Version 1. That version was rewritten in the early 2000s and Becky! Version 2 was released in 2004 and is still the flagship product, receiving periodic updates.
Becky! achieved early success in East Asia due to good support for [[CJKV]] characters and its ability to handle many languages has created interest in Europe, as evidenced by the translations to French and German by volunteers. Volunteers also created an extended help file and administer the only support forum.
==Standards support==
Becky! supports multiple accounts using the standard [[POP3]]/[[SMTP]] or [[IMAP]] protocols, with or without [[Secure Sockets Layer|SSL]], including the [[APOP]] security feature, and supports [[Pretty Good Privacy|PGP]] encryption. Becky! also supports [[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP]] and [[CardDAV]]. Support for TLS 1.3 was added on October 1, 2019 with version 2.74.03, and support for Gmail OAuth2 released with version 2.75 on March 5, 2020.
==Features==
Becky! provides full HTML messaging support for reading, composing, forwarding and redirecting messages, but defaults to plain text for composition. HTML mode can be selected via the editor on a message-by-message basis or templates can be defined for default or occasional use. This feature of templates can be customized at the account level, by folder, or for a specific topic. However, setting HTML as a default for composing messages is not an option.<ref>{{cite news |title=Disposable Email |url=https://www.eztempmail.com/ |access-date=17 September 2023}}</ref>
Becky! provides a filtering manager for both outbound and inbound messages, allows date-dependent tasks to be assigned to messages, provides support for touch screens and the "toast" feature introduced with Windows 8, provides a mailing list manager and the ability to create portable versions of Becky!. Becky! also has support for a large number of [[Plug-in (computing)|plugins]]; one such plug-in offers [[Hotmail]] access, another offers [[Usenet]] newsgroups access.
A special feature is the ''Agent''. Agents are tasks that can be assigned to any message to ensure a timely response or action. As the due date approaches, Becky! also updates the priority of the task.
==References==
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* [[Ken Lunde]], ''CJKV Information Processing'', Edition 2, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008, {{ISBN|0-596-51447-6}}, p. 698
* {{in lang|ru}} Андрей Крупин (29 October 2004) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110119043158/http://www.computerra.ru/softerra/36475/ Becky Internet Mail против The Bat], [[Computerra]]
* {{in lang|zh}}, [http://it.sohu.com/82/09/article213080982.shtml (Round-up review)] [[Sohu]], 2003/09/11
* {{in lang|ja}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100131223322/http://journal.mycom.co.jp/special/2001/onlinenote/005.html (tutorial)], 2001/04/26
* [http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/reviews/12697.aspx Brighthub.com Becky! Internet Mail Form over Function], October, 2008
* [http://email.about.com/cs/winclientreviews/gr/becky.htm About.Com Review of 2.57] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203204609/http://email.about.com/cs/winclientreviews/gr/becky.htm |date=2012-02-03 }}, June, 2011
* [http://becky-internet-mail.findmysoft.com/ FindMySoft.Com Review of 2.70], January, 2015
* [https://www.lifewire.com/becky-internet-mail-windows-1174201/ Lifewire.com Review of 2.60], October, 2016
==External links==
* [https://www.b8p.net/b2pin/plugins.html Becky! plugins directory] (in Japanese)
* [https://groups.io/g/beckymail/ User Forum - English]
* [https://www.oryva.net/becky/ User Forum - French]
* [http://becky.bplaced.net/ User Forum - German]
* [https://davidskirk.org/becky/  Expanded Becky! Help File]
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